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Anil's Ghost

A Novel (Vintage International)

By Michael Ondaatje

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| Paperback | 9780375724374

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With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prize—winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing.
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With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prize—winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing.

Anil’s Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of civil war. Into this maelstrom steps Anil Tissera, a young woman born in Sri Lanka, educated in England and America, who returns to her homeland as a forensic anthropologist sent by an international human rights group to discover the source of the organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island. What follows is a story about love, about family, about identity, about the unknown enemy, about the quest to unlock the hidden past–a story propelled by a riveting mystery. Unfolding against the deeply evocative background of Sri Lanka’s landscape and ancient civilization, Anil’s Ghost is a literary spellbinder–Michael Ondaatje’s most powerful novel yet.

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  • Glorious spectres

    Anil's Ghost Michael Ondaatje Bloomsbury, £16.99, 311pp Buy it at BOL Early in Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel The English Patient , the thief named Caravaggio inquires where he might find a Canadian nurse called Hana and is told she is ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • The seven-year glitch

    Anil's Ghost Michael Ondaatje Bloomsbury £16.99, pp312 Buy it at BOL It has been seven years since Michael Ondaatje published The English Patient. Prior to that book, prior to the Booker Prize and to Ralph Fiennes and the seven Oscars, Ondaatje had w ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • Not exactly The English Patient

    Interesting in many respects: the prose is easy yet lovely, the topic (forensic medicine with a human rights angle), and the treatment of shifting in dimensions.

    But somehow I didn't really like Anil's character. She didn't seem quite real, a trite stereotype of the many do-gooders. Somehow h ... (continue)

    Interesting in many respects: the prose is easy yet lovely, the topic (forensic medicine with a human rights angle), and the treatment of shifting in dimensions.

    But somehow I didn't really like Anil's character. She didn't seem quite real, a trite stereotype of the many do-gooders. Somehow her motivations seemed forced.

    While using the same successful and engaging writing style, Ondaatje's Anil doesn't seem quite to make it.

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